California, Here I Come, Maybe

Excerpt from When it was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

New York Giants quarterback Charley Conerly, veteran of two seasons with the pro football club, lets ball fly during a passing drill at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York, Nov. 6, 1958. Watching from left: Backfield coach Vince Lombardi, Fullback Mel Triplett, left halfback Phil King and right halfback Alex Webster. AP Photo/John Lindsay

The big news is that the NFL Los Angeles has emerged as a contender to once again host the Super Bowl—if it happens it would be in 2020 provided a franchise is in LA by the beginning of the 2018 season and a new stadium built. The City of Angeles has hosted seven Super Bowls. Five have been played at the Rose Bowl and two at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, including Super Bowl I in 1967.

The scenario is just a bit reminiscent of details I dealt with in writing my newest sports epic “When it was just a game: Remembering the first super bowl.” 

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